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I have the same problem with them on the bird feeders breaking things. I often have to resort to lethal measures. Funny that it does NOTHING to decrease the squirrel population. XD

Squirrels will outlast all humanity. Whether or not they can defeat the rats, roaches, blackberry bushes, and crows to become the planet's new dominant species...?



I'm not sure. But if I were going to design a post-Apocalyptic RP game, that's what it would be about.

When we bought the house at the end of November last year, one of the first things I did was chase my eldest (at the time, my youngest wasn't walking) and Pickles around the yard, and into piles of leaves! I have a really nice sized yard that has a healthy amount of trees, so we get leaves like crazy.

Both boys love the backyard (the youngest now walking since January or so, probably once he saw his older brother having so much fun running around and playing in snow), so we will DEFINITELY be doing that again this year!

When they saw me trimming the hedges in the spring and throwing the sticks into the woods behind the yard (there's another 30 feet of pure woods), they started playing a game where they bundle up all the sticks in the yard and throw them over the fence. I definitely don't discourage it.

BTW, Pickles also shares your arch-enemy. Something else else about squirrels calls back millennia of hunter instincts in Pickles and all he cares about it death and blood.

I could tell from the start that Pickles was more than just a pretty face...

September now! We're getting there!

Still sunshine-y hot here

Dust off your snuggies, kids!

It dosn't seem like Autumn is anywhere close ... the sun is burning my skin off. (hotter than summer proper right now)

YES! yes.

The rainy season appears to have started way early here. There were already a couple of big rainstorms starting a week or so ago, and it's coming down right now, too.

It's more normal for the rain to not start in earnest until late September or early October.

Oh, well. At least I don't have to water the plants today.

In London, tourists come and take photos sitting in the leaves and/or throwing the leaves up into the air on themselves.

The strange thing is ... the leaves are never dry like in the tv shows ... (probably and American cultural export) ... the leaves are all muddy and dirty.

It's like an SNL skit.

I always regretted not being able to stay in the USA until autumn. I was most looking forward to celebrating Halloween like the Americans do!

So what's Halloween like at home? Celebrated just by expats, or...?

The Londoners also celebrate Halloween like Americans do.


I think Americans probably have the Irish beat when it comes to celebrating St Patrick's day though.

... and by this I mean ... dressing slutty on October 31st.

HK has a Halloween event similar.

Autumn is cool with me, I can still wear shorts to work here in South Carolian. I remember playing tackle football in shorts and bare feet one christmas break as a kid. Loves me some hot weather.

Gentlemen first.

There are some Halloween parties ove rhere, but what I was really looking forward to was trick-or-treating in a suburban neighborhood. While I was in LA, we lived in one such neighborhood in Burbank.



HK's a bit too crowded for me, but thanks Peebz I think there are some major parties brimming with alcohol here in Manila as well.

Oh, and not just by expats. But, I find most of the big parties are either a) thrown in clubs and attended by bratty rich kids, or b) private affairs. So, not quite the same. But locals and expats alike do celebrate.

It's been eons since I've felt the urge to dress up. There's always the option of donning a bathrobe and slippers as a costume to greet the trick or treaters. Stuff an old TV Guide in your pocket, clench a beer can or cigarette in your teeth, and-- voila! You're dressed as a casualty of America's "recovery."

Less than a week, people!